Listen Live
Praise Featured Video
CLOSE
Shooting and police chase around the the U.S. Capitol

Source: The Washington Post / Getty

Two Minneapolis police officers who fatally shot an armed suspect after a foot chase last month will not face criminal charges in the killing, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement.

Thurman Blevins, 31, was shot on June 23 after police received a call of a man firing a handgun into the air and into the ground in a residential area in Minneapolis.

The foot chase and fatal shooting of Blevins, who was African-American, was caught on both officers’ police body-cameras, and the video footage was released to the public by the city.

Freeman said the officers, who are both white, fired only after Blevins grabbed his loaded firearm and turned toward the officers. Based on evidence from the crime scene, interviews with witnesses, and police body-camera footage, Freeman said the officers were authorized to fatally shoot Blevins.

Click here to read more

Leave a Reply